Creative documentary “Pollphail” tells the story of a village in limbo, through the eyes of a property dealer and an artist who share an obsession with the strange place. Director Matthew Lloyd explores the imagined future for the village, built to great acclaim and expense during the 1970s oil boom which gripped Scotland. Combining an unusual use of ‘minds-eye’ archive material with stunning photography and a haunting soundscape, “Pollphail” unravels the unique and unsettling story to reveal a very different reality than that which was planned for the village, and clashing ideals about how its future should now play out…
Reviewed by independent UK film magazine ‘Little White Lies’ as "an excellent documentary" in which "archive footage is sensitively handled alongside current interviews to create an absorbing story."